Picture "Blue Sponge Relief", framed
Picture "Blue Sponge Relief", framed
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limited, 250 copies | reproduction on handmade paper | framed | passe-partout | glazed | size 83.5 x 73 cm
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Picture "Blue Sponge Relief", framed
Original: Sponge, stone and colour pigments on wood and canvas, 145 x 116 cm, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main.
5-colour frequency-modulated reproduction on 260g Rives handmade paper. First limited edition print 100 copies out of a planned total edition of 1,000 copies. © Pictoright Amsterdam / Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam © The Estate of Yves Klein / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018. Framed in a solid wood frame with passe-partout, glazed. Size 83.5 x 73 cm (h/w).
About Yves Klein
Yves Klein (1928-1962) worked with his characteristic blue pigment throughout his artistic career. It was only in his late work that he broadened his colour palette.
Klein later recounted a formative experience and thus also provides an explanation for his obsession with the colour blue: "As I lay stretched upon the beach of Nice, I began to feel hatred for birds which flew back and forth across my blue sky, cloudless sky, because they tried to bore holes in my greatest and most beautiful work."
Klein is considered an important pioneer of the Nouveau Realisme genre. However, the conceptual works of the internationally renowned Frenchman are also close to the works of the German ZERO movement around Otto Piene, Heinz Mack and Günther Uecker and the Arte Povera of, for example, Lucio Fontana.